WoRMS name details
Nereis minima Lamarck, 1801
329693 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:329693)
uncertain > nomen dubium (unnecessary name created as a synonym)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Lamarck, J. B. (1801). Système des animaux sans vertèbres, ou tableau général des classes, des ordres et des genres de ces animaux; Présentant leurs caractères essentiels et leur distribution, d'apres la considération de leurs rapports naturels et de leur organisation, et suivant l'arrangement établi dans les galeries du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, parmi leurs dépouilles conservées; Précédé du discours d'ouverture du Cours de Zoologie, donné dans le Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle l'an 8 de la République. Published by the author and Deterville, Paris: viii + 432 pp., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14117719
page(s): 324 [details]
page(s): 324 [details]
Type locality contained in French Exclusive Economic Zone [Atlantic part]
type locality contained in French Exclusive Economic Zone [Atlantic part] [details]
Status Lamarck 1801 attributed Nereis minima to Baster ~1765, and he presents it not as a valid name but as a junior synonym of...
Status Lamarck 1801 attributed Nereis minima to Baster ~1765, and he presents it not as a valid name but as a junior synonym of his own new name Terebella biseta along with Nereis seticornis L. However, Baster did not use a Linnaean binominal. He did not create Nereis minima, instead he used a 4 word descriptive Nereidis minimam tentaculis longissimis. The species in Baster is clearly a spionid with long palps (shown in a figure), probably a Polydora-group species as Baster reports the worm is "found in stones, oysters, and other shell fish" Also in the Hartman catalogue p.264 she lists Nereis minima Lamarck 1801 as indeterminable, but, while that is correct, the essential problems are that Lamarck's Nereis name is used only in synonymy to a Terebella name and the entity it represents was a spionid, not a nereidid. In summary Nereis minima is a nomen dubium unnecessary new name, not valid, was never valid. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Nereis minima Lamarck, 1801. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=329693 on 2024-04-24
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Lamarck, J. B. (1801). Système des animaux sans vertèbres, ou tableau général des classes, des ordres et des genres de ces animaux; Présentant leurs caractères essentiels et leur distribution, d'apres la considération de leurs rapports naturels et de leur organisation, et suivant l'arrangement établi dans les galeries du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, parmi leurs dépouilles conservées; Précédé du discours d'ouverture du Cours de Zoologie, donné dans le Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle l'an 8 de la République. Published by the author and Deterville, Paris: viii + 432 pp., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14117719
page(s): 324 [details]
additional source Hartman, Olga. (1959). Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 and 2. <em>Allan Hancock Foundation Occasional Paper.</em> 23: 1-628.
page(s): 264; note: checklist listing, tagged as 'France indeterminable' [details] Available for editors
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additional source Baster, J. (1759-1765). Opuscula subseciva. Observationes miscellaneas de animalculis et plantis quibusdam marinis, eorumque ovariis et seminibus continentia. <em>[book series].</em> volume 1:1-148, pls. 1-16 [ 3 parts, 1759, 1760, 1761]; vol. 2:1-150, pls. 1-13. [3 parts 1762, 1765, 1765]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/37988
page(s): 134 (volume 2) and plate 12, figure 2.; note: Baster is the source of Lamarck's Terebella biseta supposed previous names Nereis minima and Nereis seticornis. Lamarck includes these names as synonyms but he invented Nereis minima himself. [details]
page(s): 324 [details]
additional source Hartman, Olga. (1959). Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 and 2. <em>Allan Hancock Foundation Occasional Paper.</em> 23: 1-628.
page(s): 264; note: checklist listing, tagged as 'France indeterminable' [details] Available for editors
[request] additional source Baster, J. (1759-1765). Opuscula subseciva. Observationes miscellaneas de animalculis et plantis quibusdam marinis, eorumque ovariis et seminibus continentia. <em>[book series].</em> volume 1:1-148, pls. 1-16 [ 3 parts, 1759, 1760, 1761]; vol. 2:1-150, pls. 1-13. [3 parts 1762, 1765, 1765]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/37988
page(s): 134 (volume 2) and plate 12, figure 2.; note: Baster is the source of Lamarck's Terebella biseta supposed previous names Nereis minima and Nereis seticornis. Lamarck includes these names as synonyms but he invented Nereis minima himself. [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Status Lamarck 1801 attributed Nereis minima to Baster ~1765, and he presents it not as a valid name but as a junior synonym of his own new name Terebella biseta along with Nereis seticornis L. However, Baster did not use a Linnaean binominal. He did not create Nereis minima, instead he used a 4 word descriptive Nereidis minimam tentaculis longissimis. The species in Baster is clearly a spionid with long palps (shown in a figure), probably a Polydora-group species as Baster reports the worm is "found in stones, oysters, and other shell fish" Also in the Hartman catalogue p.264 she lists Nereis minima Lamarck 1801 as indeterminable, but, while that is correct, the essential problems are that Lamarck's Nereis name is used only in synonymy to a Terebella name and the entity it represents was a spionid, not a nereidid. In summary Nereis minima is a nomen dubium unnecessary new name, not valid, was never valid. [details]
